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---------------------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL NOTES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file contains detailed and often highly technical notes about the news/fixes/changes of each version. Symbols used: - Bugfix. ! Changed feature. + New feature. * Information/clarification. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes for GoldED 2.50 Public Release, October 8th 1995. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - The Write-to-file function now no longer uses the PRINTMARGIN, but instead uses a fixed 80 chars margin. In a later release I will add a keyword to set the margin specifically for Write-to-file. - The arealist groupid column is now only shown if there is at least one area with a groupid. - Corrected several (but probably not all) bugs in the IBM_*.CHS (and a few other) character translation tables, most notably regarding the characters with ASCII codes 149, 150, 151, 161, 162 and 163. Also corrected a bug in the translation code which caused GoldED to output kludges without the '^a' kludge character in some situations. The IBM_IQP.CHS file now uses the new ID 100000 which allows the full 256 characters to be translated. This is done in order to properly translate the '=' character to the q-p code "=3D". Thanks to Rene Kreisbeck for pointing out bugs in the .CHS files. Also added several new .CHS files for translation to and from codepage 850. These files are named 850_???.CHS and ???_850.CHS. + The kludge "NOTE:" is now recognized as a known kludge, but is otherwise ignored. This kludge is used by some programs as an alternative free-form PID (product id). - The EDITmacro's now allow single letters (highbit or not) to be used to trigger a macro. This could be used to convert commonly used local highbit letters to their ASCII equivalents. Example: Æ EDITmacro "AE" ¥ EDITmacro "OE" Å EDITmacro "AA" æ EDITmacro "ae" ¢ EDITmacro "oe" å EDITmacro "aa" TIP: See also the new chapter "Converting your highbit characters to ASCII" in the users guide manual for a couple of other ways of doing this. - In the adjusted file attach dialog, the window scrolled part of the middle vertical border. Also, when the window wasn't filled with files, the terminating was too short in wide screen modes. - If no other file than GOLDLANG.CFG was edited, GoldED would crash after compiling the configuration. + New key command READtouchsemaphore. There is no default key assignment. This command will pop up an input window and allow you to enter the name of a semaphore file, which will then be touched. The command is meant to be used in macros, like this one: F12 READmacro READtouchsemaphore "R:\FD\FDXIT1.117" Enter This example macro touches a semaphore file which causes FrontDoor task 1 to exit with errorlevel 117. + New keyword APP <programname> [keyword or parameters]. This was added to enable other programs to use GOLDED.CFG as a place to read their own configuration data. GoldED itself ignores the APP keyword. - Messages entered in Squish areas with Maximus v3 showed a lonely kludge character at the top of the message. + New keyword AREASCANSORT <sortspec>. Defaults to XZBE. Specifies the sort order used during area scanning. The default optimizes speed. + New keyword CTRLINFO. Same as CTRLINFOECHO etc, but for use in random system groups. This should help those who use the QWK and Internet features and don't want tearline and origin in their messages. - The sound support in GoldED/2 now releases the sound device after a sound file has played to the end. + At last, the language configuration in GOLDLANG.CFG has been made up-to-date. The new example GOLDLANG.CFG contains *all* available language keywords, with the newest separated out, plus a list of a number of language keywords which are now obsolete. If you want to keep your old GOLDLANG.CFG, but want to remove the obsolete keywords, run GoldED with parameters -FF -D, which will cause GoldED to show warnings about the obsolete keywords. Now almost all text which is displayed on the screen can be translated. Logging and error messages cannot be translated and either can the registration info text in the startup screen. If you find some text that you believe should be translatable, please let me know and I will consider it. NOTE: You will probably have to edit your GEDLNG*.CFG files too, if you have them, because there are a few language keyword commonly used in them, which are no longer supported. - In the random system there was indeed a bug concerning groupid letter groups, despite my information to the contrary for A0918. Somehow the bug didn't turn up in my own test setup. Thanks to Thomas Fisker who provided full input data per the instructions given recently (subject REPORT.BUG). - A word wrap bug in the internal editor has been fixed. It showed when editing on the last positions of a line inside a paragraph. The result was that words were split in two then the message was saved. ! The -X debug commandline parameter now, in addition to showing function tracking in the statusline, checks all memory allocations for under/overruns every time function tracking is called, which is at the entry and exit of many functions in GoldED. Using -X will dramatically slow down GoldED, but it may finally pinpoint the code which occasionally causes pointer under+overruns. ! The -Y debug commandline parameter now write all function tracking continuously to the logfile and also writes additional debug information, especially about area scanning. Note that the logfile may grow quite large! - The ELSEIF/ELIF configuration control keywords did not work properly. ! The default for the AREAFILEGROUPS keyword is now YES. The change was made to prevent support questions about "why doesn't my groupid groups work?" - The message list date column always showed "n/a" when switched to show the "received" date. - In GoldNODE index lookups, GoldED refused to access the index if the original nodelists were missing. + The groupid numbers can now be in the range 1 to 999. - Apparently groupid's in GEcho 1.20 are numbered 1-256 in the setup and 0-255 in the configuration file. GoldED will now read them as 1-256. - In FD/IM nodelist lookups, if the nodelist contained a zero-length field (",,"), the entry would not be interpreted correctly. - The message list now automatically switches the date column to the date written, for messagebase formats that don't support the other dates (arrived or received). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes for GoldED 2.50.A0918 * Open Alpha * Public Pre-Release * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * INFORMATION: Despite what you may think, the random system does in fact still work in Beta6 and this Alpha. The "problem" is that it has been fixed with regard to handling of GROUP's based on groupid's (letters or numbers). It has been the practice in older config examples to put these groups at the top, but now they should be moved below most other groups, because otherwise they will override them. Note however, that the Beta6 bug with messed up descriptions and/or echoids *could* in some cases be the reason for your problems. If that was the case, this Alpha should fix it. If you still can't seem to get the random system to work as you expect, send me (in netmail as a file attach) the files GOLDED.DMP and GOLDAREA.INC after you run GoldED with these parameters: "-FF -VV -W >GOLDED.DMP". + The character translation files (.CHS) can now define all characters from 0 to 255 for level 2 sets if the ID is set to 65536 or higher. This is only of concern for anyone who wishes to create new .CHS files. - This macro now works: @R Macro READmarkingoptions "R" READtogglemarkread. - The file attach selection window has been modified to better support long names on HPFS drives. The list of files is now sorted without case sensitivity. The file size, date and time columns were compacted to leave more space for the filename column. The filename column now shows the actual filename instead of splitting it up into name and extension. - GoldED/2 required the file MDM.DLL to be in the LIBPATH, even when the sound support was not used and MMPM/2 was not installed. A dummy MDM.DLL was distributed to solve this problem for Beta6. In this release there is no longer a need for the dummy MDM.DLL and you can and should delete it. + Added a warning menu which comes up when you are to about change an already sent message. + Added another menu item to the arealist scanning menu: "Scan Group". This scans all areas which have the same groupid as the current area. + Added a menu asking "Really exit?" which comes up if you press ESC when GoldED is waiting for access to a locked messagebase. - The default for STYLECODESTOPS has been changed back to the way it was before Beta6 (nothing). - When required nodelist or nodelist index files were missing, GoldED would crash when trying to do a lookup. Now it will warn that it is unable to access the files. - In areas marked as Internet email, an extra "To:" line was added at the top of the message body. - There was an unfree'd pointer in gxmax2.cpp. - The INTL/FMPT/TOPT kludges were messed up when copy/moving messages to JAM netmail areas. - GoldED/2 would seem to hang at exit when sound support was enabled. It was in fact not hanged - pressing ESC at that point would make it exit. This was due to an incomplete sound support implementation. New sound support code was kindly provided by Nicolai Dufva and this problem has been solved. + The arealist groupid column is now able to show numeric groupid's. - The -t commandline option was not working. Actually it was removed over a year ago because at that time it could not be supported. I forgot to put it back when it could be supported again. - When replying to a message in the Hudson msgbase, it linked back but not forward. - The palette is now restored during shells if you have redefined it using SCREENPALETTE. This fix is not tested. - GoldED would pause at the end of config reading when the -v commandline option was used. - Descriptions and/or echoids were messed up if they were not defined. This would happen with AREAFILE Squish, AREAS.BBS and several others. - The config reader did not report unknown keywords if they didn't have any parameters. - The IF/ELIF/ENDIF logic was not solid. Now it works as expected and warns if you make a mistake (such as putting ENDIF before IF or try to nest IF/ENDIF's). Also, an ELSE keyword was added. ! The SCREENUSEANSI keyword is obsolete and has been for quite some time, I just didn't bother to document it here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes for GoldED 2.50.Beta6, released september 1st, 1995. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + A new template token has been added: "@xlatexport <charset>". If this token is used on a line in a template, the message will be saved using the specified charset. This is particularly useful when FidoNet netmail and Internet e-mail is mixed in a netmail area and you want to use ISO-8859-1 quoted-printable for the replies to the Internet e-mail. Then you just need to switch template before replying. Example: @xlatexport latin1qp NOTE: A known problem with this feature is that it only works then saving the message the first time. If the message is later changed, the charset will revert to the default for the area. This problem will be solved in a later version. - The Random System GROUP behaviour has been changed with regard to handling of groupid letter or number groups. Previously it was not possible to specify exceptions to these groups. Now you can put the exception groups before the groupid letter or number groups. The rule is now: Specific groups first, general groups last. Here is an example what should make it all clear: GROUP GOLDED_R23.PNT ; A specific group ORIGIN Danish support area GROUP GOLDED: ; A general group MEMBER *GOLDED* ORIGIN All other GoldED areas GROUP G ; A general groupid letter group ORIGIN All areas belonging to group letter 'G' GROUP #117 ; A general groupid number group ORIGIN All areas belonging to group number 117 GROUP * ; Final catch-all group ORIGIN Any area not taken care of above ENDGROUP + When replying to messages in Squish or JAM areas, GoldED now correctly updates the replylinks on the original message. For Squish, it uses the first free link field, if any. For JAM, it runs down the entire chain and updates the last link's replynext field. + The JAM hexdump now also shows information about and from the lastread record. + AREAFILE Maximus now supports Maximus 3.00. Detection of the version is done by looking for a file named "MAREA.DAT". If that file is found, version 3.00 is assumed. + The "MSGSEQ" kludge is now a known kludge and treated as such. + The "MOOD" kludge (invented by Terminate author Bo Bendtsen) is now a known kludge and treated as such. + Soup export now exports from any area listed as EMail or News. - Forward of messages to Internet e-mail areas with a To: line at the top wasn't working as expected. Please let me know if there are still problems. - When forwarding from Internet areas, the From: name in the original message was unintentionally used as from-name in the forwarded message. - In Internet e-mail, it was practically impossible to change the To: name. - The FD and V7 nodelist index lookups have been changed so that they no longer pick the last of several matching names instead of popping up the browser. This was a problem which came up in some, not all, cases. NOTE: This fix has not been tested (because of course I couldn't find any of the special cases when I needed them..), but should work. - In SOUP exports, long References headers were not exported correctly. - When importing SOUP packets, GoldED will now only put in *one* REPLY kludge, using the last reference in the References header. This has been done because some MSGID/REPLY-based replylinkers will only look for one REPLY kludge, and the one it finds is typically the first one. Unfortunately it is the last one which is the most significant. Reversing the order of REPLY kludges generated from the References header would help in this case, but then there might be replylinkers that were using the last REPLY kludge, and they would stop working correctly. So the best compromise seems to be to keep only the most significant reference and put it in the single REPLY kludge. - Fixed a bug that caused GoldED/386 to crash on certain messages when run in a DOS session under Windows. + In the arealist, if you have entered a "fuzzy" string, then the scanning menus (Alt-S/Alt-P) will default to "Scan Matching". - Fixed undesirable behavior in aka matching: The aka is now not changed if the current aka already matches. (Not tested much!) - Leading and trailing spaces are now trimmed from the @oname, @dname and @tname tokens in templates. (Not tested!) + AREAFILE GEcho now supports version 1.20, including Squish and PCBoard areas and numeric groups. I have tested that it still works with GEcho 1.11, but I don't have 1.20 (beta) yet, so testers will have to tell me if it works with that version. + Soundcards are now again supported in GoldED. In the DOS and 386 versions, sound is supported via the Goldware Sound API. Read about the Goldware Sound API in the reference manual. For a sample implementation of the Goldware Sound API, get GCTV100.ZIP. The OS/2 version also supports sound, through MMPM/2. There are still some minor problems with the sound support in OS/2. - The Ctrl-M pulldown menus didn't accept left/right cursor keys. - The AUTO macro keyword was not recognized in GOLDKEYS.CFG. - The Alt-W(rite) output in wide screen modes was also wide. Write output is now adjusted to the PRINTMARGIN. - In wide modes like 100x25, there is was leftover junk after the to-address field when replying to msgs with domain. - Help screen: When switching from a topic with a long title to one with a short title, there were junk left over from the long title. ! AREAFILE FastEcho now only supports major struct versions 4 (v1.10-1.40), 5 (v1.41) and 6 (v1.42 and up). ! AREAFILE IMAIL now only supports major struct version 4 (v1.6x) and 5 (v1.7x), following advice from the IMAIL author. + Groupids in the range 1-255 are now supported. AREAFILE IMAIL (for v1.7x and up) and AREAFILE GEcho (for 1.2x and up) now read groupid numbers instead of letters. If you want to use numeric groupids in AREADEF's, use the syntax #nnn. Example: AREADEF MYECHO "mydesc" #117 ... If you want to specify numeric random system GROUP's, use the #nnn syntax: GROUP #117 ORIGIN "My 117th origin" ENDGROUP + JAM netmail areas will now show INTL/TOPT/FMPT kludges in netmails. Note that this is cosmetics only. All kludges shown in JAM areas area actually reconstructed from the JAM subfield for your viewing convenience. + New keyword: MSGLISTDATE <written/arrived/received/no>. Defaults to "written". Can be used globally and in groups. This keyword specifies the default date shown in the right column in the message list. If "no" is specified, the date column is removed and the space used to widen the other columns. Personally I prefer to see the "arrived" date, which is why I implemented this feature. + New key command: LISTtoggledate. Default assignment: Ctrl-D. Toggles the content of the date column in the message list. + Added a new stylecode: #REVERSE#. A bunch of additional stylecode colors have been added to support it: COLOR STYLECODE R <colors> COLOR STYLECODE RB <colors> COLOR STYLECODE RI <colors> COLOR STYLECODE RBI <colors> COLOR STYLECODE RU <colors> COLOR STYLECODE RBU <colors> COLOR STYLECODE RIU <colors> COLOR STYLECODE RBIU <colors> Or you could simply use COLOR STYLECODE ALL <colors> to use the same color for all combinations of stylecodes. + New keywords: STYLECODEPUNCT <"charlist">, and STYLECODESTOPS <"charlist">. The STYLECODEPUNCT keyword specifies all the characters that punctuates words. The stylecode line parser scans forward until it meets one of these characters and then looks back to see if it found a word with stylecodes around it. The STYLECODESTOPS keyword specifies characters which, if found within the word to be highlighted, causes the highlight to be cancelled. These keywords were added to allow users to experiment with the characters for punctuation and stop for stylecode sequences. This is mostly to illustrate the point that it is almost impossible to make stylecodes work in every case you want without getting a lot of false highlights too. Please keep in mind that stylecodes are, and always will be, a primitive and very error-prone method for adding highlights to message text. The defaults are: STYLECODEPUNCT " !\"$%&()+,.:;<=>@[\]^`{|}~" STYLECODESTOPS "/#*" Note that the double-quote (") must have the backslash (\) in front of it - the sequence (\") is translated to a single ("). ! The DISPSTYLECODES keyword has been renamed to STYlECODES in order to match the other new stylecode keywords. The old name is now on the list of obsolete keywords. * Further optimization of memory usage and overlays have been made in this version. Even the OS/2 version seems snappier now! :-) Note that the startup configuration compile is still somewhat slower than you might be used to. Subsequent startups are faster. ! The content of the PID kludge for GoldED has now been revised to conform 100% to the specification in FSC-0046.005. The PID for GoldED will from now on have the following form: GED[2,3] <major>.<minor>.<a,b,g><number> <serialno or UNREG> Examples: Tearline: PID: GoldED 2.50 GED 2.5 GoldED/2 2.50.Beta6 GED2 2.5.b6 GoldED/386 2.50.A0812 GED3 2.5.a812 GoldED/386 2.51.Gamma1 GED3 2.51.g1 (note: fictional!) The rule for inserting the PID or not has also been changed and is now as follows: The PID will be inserted if the token-expanded substring "@longpid @version" is not found anywhere in the tearline. The recommended (and default) tearline for GoldED is "@longpid @version". If you use that as the whole or part of a tearline, then the PID will not be inserted. NOTE: The responsibility is entirely YOURS if you decide to break the PID specification on purpose. YOU will break the PID spec if YOU setup GoldED so that it generates both a PID and a non-empty tearline. + NODEV7FLAGS <flag> <value>. The Version 7 nodelist index does not by default define any nodelist flags except the CM flag. Unfortunately the V7 index does not point to the actual nodelist, it only has some bits which are marked "reserved" in the specifications. The NODEV7FLAGS keyword allows you to define the meaning of each of these bits. The <value> field can be a number or a bit number. Allowed numbers are: 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 8192 and 16384. Allowed bit numbers are: b5, b6, b7, b8, b9, b10, b11, b13 and b14. Example: NODEV7FLAGS MO b5 NODEV7FLAGS LO b6 NODEV7FLAGS MN b7 NODEV7FLAGS NC b8 NODEV7FLAGS ZEC b9 NODEV7FLAGS REC b10 NODEV7FLAGS NEC b11 NODEV7FLAGS XA b13 NODEV7FLAGS XX b14 See also the NODEV7MODEM keyword for other nodelist flags. The nodelist flag bits in the index files are put in by your Version 7 nodelist compiler. You must make sure that the nodelist flag definitions in your nodelist compiler setup match those in your GoldED setup. + NODEV7MODEM <type> <value>. The Version 7 nodelist index does not by default define any nodelist modem type flags. Unfortunately the V7 index does not point to the actual nodelist, it only has some bits which are marked "reserved" in the specifications. The NODEV7MODEM keyword allows you to define the meaning of each of these bits. The <value> field can be a number or a bit number. Allowed numbers are: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 and 128. Allowed bit numbers are: b0, b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6 and b7. Example: NODEV7MODEM VFC b0 NODEV7MODEM HST b1 NODEV7MODEM V34T b2 NODEV7MODEM V32B b3 NODEV7MODEM V34 b4 NODEV7MODEM V42B b5 NODEV7MODEM ZYX b6 NODEV7MODEM ISDN b7 See also the NODEV7FLAGS keyword for other nodelist flags. The modem type bits in the index files are put in by your Version 7 nodelist compiler. You must make sure that the modem type definitions in your nodelist compiler setup match those in your GoldED setup. - The nodelist browser only showed the first nodelist flag when using FrontDoor indexes. - If an empty name was entered in the to-field in a netmail area, the nodelist browser did not pop up. - The carbon copy function truncated the address, if it encountered a CC entry with a name and address longer than 35 characters. - Fixed a serious bug in the character translation function. Messages you wrote were assumed to be in another charset than expected. This would manifest itself prominently when using IBMPC to LATIN-1 translation with characters with values above A0h, such as 'ß' (225d). + New keyword: XLATLOCALSET <charsetid>. Defaults to IBMPC. Use this keyword to specify the actual physical charset in effect for text screen display. This was previously the hardcoded value IBMPC, corresponding to the IBM codepage 437 (or the nordic edition 865). All charset translation files must translate from and to the charset identified with the XLATLOCALSET keyword. This keyword was added so that it could, for example, be possible to create charset translation files which translate between IBM codepage 850 (CP850) and the LATIN-1 charset. These two charsets can be converted almost loss-less to each other. The charset files 850_850.CHS, 850_ISO.CHS and ISO_850.CHS are now included. These are for translation to/from the charset named CP850. Actually several additional charset files should be added to complete the set for CP850, but there wasn't time. - The address mask "*" was expanded to "akazone:akanet/*.*" and not "*:*/*.*" as intended. + New keyword TEMPLATEMATCH <yes/no>. Defaults to NO. If enabled, GoldED will select a template which matches the destination address on messages that you write. This keyword can be used globally or in random system groups. See below for more details about template matching. + Added template matching feature. The TEMPLATE keyword now has the following syntax (when used globally - not in groups): TEMPLATE <file> ["desc"] [match-address] The match-address is an address mask (wildcards allowed) which can be used to tell GoldED to select that template if the destination address on a message you write matches the match-address. The matching will only take place if the TEMPLATEMATCH keyword has been enabled. Currently only one match-address per template can be specified, but you can specify several TEMPLATE keywords for the same file. Example: // Use DANSK.TPL for messages to Danish nodes/points. TEMPLATE DANSK.TPL "Danish" 2:23/* TEMPLATE DANSK.TPL "Danish" 2:234/* TEMPLATE DANSK.TPL "Danish" 2:235/* TEMPLATE DANSK.TPL "Danish" 2:236/* TEMPLATE DANSK.TPL "Danish" 2:237/* TEMPLATE DANSK.TPL "Danish" 2:238/* // Use INTERNET.TPL for messages to the WinBoss gateway TEMPLATE INTERNET.TPL "Internet" 2:230/9316 // Use ENGLISH.TPL for messages to everywhere else TEMPLATE ENGLISH.TPL "English" * NOTE: The description ["desc"] is optional, but if used, it must appear before the match-address. It must always be enclosed in quotes, even if it is only one word. NOTE: To override the automatic template matching, start by selecting a template manually using the READchangetemplate (Ctrl-T) command or the EDITMENU. - Fixed a bug in the FD index support for nodelists with no comma and flags after the baud rate. This messed up the detail lines in the browser. ! Removed the EDITMARGIN keyword which was introduced in A0715. It was an attempt to solve a problem which occurs when using wide screen modes and msgbases such as Ezycom and PCBoard which require messages to have lines that are maximum 80 chars wide. EDITMARGIN did not solve this problem properly. For now, you should run GoldED in a 80 chars mode or set DISPMARGIN to 80 if you have Ezycom or PCBoard msgbases. + The EDITHEADERFIRST keyword (introduced in A0715, see below) has been changed to accept several new values. It now accepts: New When entering a new message. Changes When changing a message Replies When making a reply. Forwards When forwarding a message. Yes Always (all of the above). No Never. The New, Changes, Replies and Forwards values can be combined. YES is equivalent to enabling all four of these. For example, we want to edit the header only when entering a new message or when changing a message: EDITHEADERFIRST New, Changes ! The GIF kludge is now only inserted in your messages if the specified GIF file is actually present in the GIFPATH. This restriction has been implemented to prevent abuse of this feature. After all, the intention of the GIF kludge is to specify a filename that others can file request from you (or your bossnode). + New keyword: AREALISTSCAN <"L menu text"> [path]<filename>. This keyword allows you to define additional menu items for the arealist scanning menus (Alt-S or Alt-P). The filename specifies a plain ASCII file, with the echoids (wildcards allowed) of the areas you want to scan when the menu item is selected. There can be several echoids on each line in the file. If no path is given, the file is loaded from the GOLDPATH. Example: AREALISTSCAN "g Scan Newsgroups" NEWSGRPS.LST === Cut, NEWSGRPS.LST === ALT.*, COMP.*, MISC.*, NEWS.* REC.*, SOC.*, SCI.*, TALK.* === Cut === + It is now possible to undefine any built-in key command, using one of these new key commands: AREAundefine EDITundefine FILEundefine LISTundefine NODEundefine READundefine For example, if you want to undefine the right-arrow in the arealist, put this in your GOLDKEYS.CFG: Right AREAundefine + Added mode-specific keyboard macros. This means that you can now define keyboard macros that work only in the internal editor, or in the reader etc. These are the new macro key commands: AREAmacro EDITmacro FILEmacro LISTmacro NODEmacro READmacro Examples: @G AREAmacro "GOLDED" ^N EDITmacro EDITnewline EDITgoup @F1 READmacro READcopymoveforward "C" "THE_SAFE" Enter NOTE: The old global macro key command still works as normal. + AREAFILE IMAIL now supports version 1.70 or newer, provided that it is backwards compatible with 1.6x. Not tested. - The Internet Organization RFC line disappeared after changing a message. + The file request function now always adds FILES to the list of requestable files, unless FRQOPTIONS NOFILES is specified. - In the internal editor, the line number in the statusline was not updated after an automatic wordwrap. + New keyword EDITHEADERATTRS <yes/no>. Defaults to YES. This keyword allows you to turn off the large attributes window that is shown during header edit. Even if the window is turned off, the Alt-keys are still active for toggling attributes. + You can now manually toggle the attributes window on and off by pressing Alt-F1 during header edit. This is a help if you are trying to enter a name or address based on information in the message text which might be covered by the attributes window. - In wide screen modes, such as 132x45, and when the header and reader colors are different, the reader colors would show through in non-updated blocks to the left of the date fields. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes for A0715: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * The regular DOS version now uses a bit less memory than before, due to various memory saving code changes: 1. Code rearrangements which reduced the overlay buffer size. 2. Removal of the function tracking debug code. 3. Reduction of the max echoid size from 80 to 50 chars. 4. Nodelist lookup doesn't have to load the entire .GXA any more. In my tests I found that the memory meter in the statusline now shows at least 20k more than A0611. The reduction of the max echoid size will also have a positive effect on the memory meter, especially if you have a large number of message areas. The startup (configuration reading) is now a bit slower, because the configuration interpreting code was spread over more overlays. Due to the smaller overlay buffer, there may be a slight overall slowdown or it may seem a bit sluggish. If you have plenty of DOS memory available and the statusline memory meter typically shows more than 150k, you might want to use the commandline option -o to increase the overlay buffer size for more speed. I have my eye on several things in GoldED that uses a lot of memory, and I will continue working on reducing the memory usage in future releases. NOTE: For the 386 and OS/2 versions, the function tracking debug code is still present, and the max echoid size is still 80. ! The nodelist lookup and browser is now fully functional for Version 7, FrontDoor/InterMail(*), FIDOUSER.LST and GoldED nodelist indexes. Please see the notes for A0611 regarding the setup for V7/FD/IM/FIDOUSER. It is still only possible to use one of the different types of indexes. (*) The nodelist browser for FrontDoor/InterMail indexes is currently not working 100% correctly. A straight lookup should work fine, and the browser will typically work pretty well when scrolling/paging downward, but upward scrolling/pageing and screen update will mess up (but not fatally) after a while. This will be corrected in a later release. In the browser, the Tab key will now toggle between name and address lookup and browsing. NOTE: I have decided to continue supporting my own GoldED nodelist index and GoldNODE, even now that Version 7 and FrontDoor index support is in place. This is due to the fact that not all software supports one of these formats, and a set of Version 7 indexes is substantially larger than GoldED's own. GoldNODE will now be distributed in a separate archive, to reduce costs for those to don't need it. However, I can recommend Marius Ellens FASTV7, which can produce GoldED indexes and often does it faster than GoldNODE, especially in low-memory setups. - The nodelist lookup now again works as expected when looking up the string ".?". This works like looking up ".0", except that the browser will come up for further selection. - Under some circumstances, such as after a search, the pagedown or enter key would fail to work as expected. - The EDITzapquotebelow command now leaves a blank line after doing its thing. - For Internet messages, GoldED did not parse addresses with commas in quotes correctly. Example: "Name, Name" <what@where>. This is now correctly parsed. - When the EDITreflow command was used on a single line, the line was not updated. - If F1 was pressed while the screenblanker was running, the help window would come up and start moving around the screen :-) + New keyword EDITCOMPLETION <"abbreviation"> <"completion">. This new feature allows you to define abbreviations which will be automatically expanded to full words or sentences when typed in the internal editor. Examples: EDITCOMPLETION "Odin" "Odinn" EDITCOMPLETION "GED" "GoldED" EDITCOMPLETION "V7" "Version 7" EDITCOMPLETION "FD" "FrontDoor" NOTE! The abbreviation is case-sensitive. If "XX" is defined as an abbreviation, completion will NOT be triggered if "xx" is typed. + New keyword AREALISTGROUPID <yes/no>. Defaults to YES. If enabled, the arealist screen will display the group id letters, if any, in a column to the right of the EchoID column. - AREAFILE FastEcho did not get the group letter from versions 1.41g and 1.45 (structure revision 6). - If INTERNETADDRESS was defined globally, it was used as the From name instead of the current USERNAME. - The domain (if any was defined) on the address in the MSGID kludge was missing. - The EDITdupline key command (F4) didn't leave the cursor on the correct line. - The stylecodes feature was broken in the regular DOS version and could cause strange behavior and crashes. - The READquotebuf key command (Ctrl-W) caused a crash when used in an empry area. - The internal editor would fail to display lines correctly if empty quotes were used with the EDITCHARPARA or EDITCHARSPACE keywords. + New keyword EDITMARGIN <margin>. Defaults to 80. Specifies the margin used when editing messages. Previously this margin was controlled using the DISPMARGIN keyword. The addition of EDITMARGIN allows the possibility of viewing messages on the full width of, say, a 100x40 or 132x44 screen, but still only edit messages 80 chars wide. This is mostly relevant for those messagebases that must have lines that are hard-terminated at max 80 chars per line. + New keyword NODEPATHIM <path>. Path to the InterMail nodelist index files. This is actually just an alias name of the NODEPATHFD keyword, since InterMail and FrontDoor uses the same nodelist index files. + AREAFILE LoraBBS now sets the PVT attribute on areas that are marked as "Private only". It now also sets the GOLDBASEPATH if it is not defined. - IMPORTANT! The Hudson/Goldbase NETMAIL/ECHOMAIL.BBS/.DAT files were not updated correctly. Because of this, it is possible that some messages that you have written have not been scanned out. To scan out the unscanned messages, you should force your mail scanner to scan the entire Hudson/Goldbase messagebase. Here are some typical "force complete Hudson scan" commandlines for a few of the popular mail processors: FastEcho: Scan -N -HMB FMail: Scan /S GEcho: Scan -Force IMAIL: Scan /F /H + New keyword EDITHEADERFIRST <yes/no>. Defaults to YES (work as usual). If set to NO, the header edit will be bypassed and you will start directly in the EDITMENU (if enabled) or in the internal or external editor. A new menu item has been added in the EDITSAVEMENU, "Edit Header", which allows you to edit the header after you have written your message, but before it is finally saved. If you set EDITHEADERFIRST to NO, you must either have the EDITSAVEMENU enabled, or use the internal editor, because otherwise it is not possible to edit the header at all. - GoldED put uppercased names in the userlist produced with the READmakeuserlist command. The case is now left unchanged. + New keyword ORGANIZATION <text>. Defaults to nothing. Specifies the content of the RFC Organization header for Internet messages. GoldED will no longer use the ORIGIN text in the Organization header. + The RFC header X-FTN-To is now supported. It supplies the to-name from FTN (FidoNet) headers. + New keyword TIMEZONEOFFSET [+/-]<hhmm>. Defaults to zero. Specifies the difference in hours and minutes from GMT/UT. Note that the sign must be correct. Zones west of Greenwich have negative offsets. Some examples: -1000 Alaska-Hawaii Standard Time -0900 Hawaii Daylight Time -0800 Pacific Standard Time -0700 Pacific Daylight Time -0700 Mountain Standard Time -0600 Mountain Daylight Time -0600 Central Standard Time -0500 Central Daylight Time -0500 Eastern Standard Time -0400 Eastern Daylight Time -0100 West Africa Time +0000 Greenwich Mean Time +0100 Central European Time +0100 British Summer Time +0200 Central European Summer Time +0200 Eastern European Time +0700 West Australian Time +0800 West Australian Daylight Time +0800 China Coast Time +0900 Japan Standard Time +0900 Central Australian Standard Time +1000 East Australian Standard Time +1000 Central Australian Daylight Time +1100 East Australian Daylight Time +1200 New Zealand Standard Time +1300 New Zealand Daylight Time Note that the hh in a timezone offset can go up to about 14; it is not limited to 12. This is because the International Date Line does not run exactly along the boundary between zone -1200 and +1200. The timezone offset is currently only used for the RFC Date header in Internet messages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes for A0611: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + Added FrontDoor, Version 7 and FIDOUSER.LST lookup capability! This release contains the first *very* *rough* implementation of FD/V7 nodelist index support. At this time, it only supports a direct lookup of the first match, no browsing. The nodelist browser may come up, but it will not display anything useful. Three new keywords have been added to support the new feature: FIDOUSERLIST <file> Path and name of a sorted FIDOUSER.LST file. NODEPATHFD <path> Path to the FrontDoor nodelist index files. NODEPATHV7 <path> Path to the NODEX.* and SYSOP.NDX files. Currently lookup is only supported for one of these three. If all three are defined, GoldED will only lookup the Version 7 index. In a later release, it is planned that GoldED will try them in sequence until a match is found. For the FIDOUSERLIST, the list file is expected to be sorted in ascending alphabetical order using ASCII-case-insensitive sort. Each line in the list is expected to be 60 characters plus a CR and a LF, or in other words, records of 62 bytes each. If list is produced by a nodelist compiler, everything should be okay, but be careful if you have edited the file manually. Note that a FIDOUSER.LST file only supports a name lookup (to get the address). NOTE: GoldED's own nodelist index files are still supported in this release, in case the FD/V7 support is too buggy. As soon as it is debugged, and full browsing has been implemented, I intend to remove the support for GoldED's own index files (reducing the GoldED EXE size) and drop the GoldNODE program. GoldED will use it's own index if none of the three new keywords are defined. + Enhanced the functionality of some keywords which previously accepted only one parameter. Here is a list of the keywords which will now accept more than one parameter, separated by spaces or commas: AREAEXCL AREAINCL AREAISEMAIL AREAISNEWS AREAPMSCAN AREAPMSCANEXCL AREAPMSCANINCL AREASCAN AREASCANEXCL AREASCANINCL FRQEXT ROBOTNAME This means that you can now write: AREAISNEWS alt.*, comp.*, misc.* Instead of: AREAISNEWS alt.* AREAISNEWS comp.* AREAISNEWS misc.* So now you can make a more elegant configuration :-) - With FRQWAZOO YES, spaces in the subject were transformed into LF characters. + New keyword: QWKOPTIONS <bbsid> <options>. The <bbsid> is the BBSID (same as the name of the QWK packet) for which the options will be active. The <options> can be any or a combination of the following, separated by commas or spaces: KLUDGES/NOKLUDGES: Defaults to NOKLUDGES. Specifies whether or not to include the FidoNet-style kludges at the top of messages when exporting to QWK. NOTE: Unless you enable this option, GoldED will *not* include kludges in your QWK packets. You should check if the BBS supports kludges in QWK packets. If it does, please enable this option. MIXCASE/NOMIXCASE: Defaults to NOMIXCASE. Specifies whether or not the BBS allows mixed upper/lower case in the QWK message headers. The default is to uppercase the TO and FROM header fields when exporting to QWK packets. RECEIPT/NORECEIPT: Defaults to NORECEIPT. Specifies whether or not the BBS supports return receipt requests (RRQ). If the RECEIPT option is enabled, GoldED will insert "RRR" at the front of the subject field if the RRQ attribute is set on your messages, when exporting to QWK packets. - QWKCONFMAP did not work correctly when conferences names were enclosed in double quotes. - Unknown kludges with a colon were not recognized as hidden lines. - In the arealist, you could type a fuzzy string so that that it wrapped down on the next line. - The uudecode function did not work when there was a table at the beginning of the uuencoded data. + For those who are not interested in setting up different colors for each stylecode combination, it is now possible to specify a single highlight color for all the stylecode combinations: COLOR STYLECODE ALL <color> Remember to place this definition *below* COLOR READER WINDOW. + The FILEALIAS definitions now also work in the internal editor import function. + GoldED now adds the "Sender:" RFC header in your Internet e-mail and newsgroup articles. ! In Internet newsgroups, GoldED now uses "X-To:" instead of "To:" in newsgroups for safety. It turned out that some software would send an e-mail copy to the To: address if found in a newsgroup. + New keyword: UUDECODEPATH <path>. Specifies the path where files are placed when using the uudecode feature. Files are placed in current directory if a path is not specified. - When in personal mail mode, after the "delete original?" menu, GoldED was locked into the area at msg 1. - In Hudson/Goldbase, netmails with the DEL attribute were deleted on-the-fly if encountered. - Character translation of character ASCII 255 was not performed correctly. - The internal editor in A0525 painted some strange colors when moving around with the cursor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes for A0525: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - In SOUP import, an internal buffer was too small (2k) to handle some obscenely long RFC headers. The buffer has now been increased to 16k (crossing fingers that it is enough). + New keyword and feature: DISPSTYLECODES <yes/no>. Defaults to NO. If enabled, GoldED will highlight text surrounded by one of the following characters in a different color: '*' for bold text, '/' for italic text and '_' for underlined text. These are commonly used "stylecodes" which add emphasis to the text, without making it harder to read. Examples: *This* will be shown in bold color, /this/ in italic color and _this_ in underlined color. It is also possible to combine styles, such as */this/*, in bolditalic color. There are 7 new color keyword combinations which are used to define the colors of the stylecodes. By default, GoldED assigns the COLOR READER WINDOW to all 7 stylecode colors. Therefore you must define these 7 colors specifically if you enable DISPSTYLECODES, otherwise you will not see any difference. Here is an example: COLOR STYLECODE B Red on LGrey ; *Bold* COLOR STYLECODE I Blue on LGrey ; /Italic/ COLOR STYLECODE BI LMagenta on LGrey ; /*BoldItalic*/ COLOR STYLECODE U Green on LGrey ; _Underline_ COLOR STYLECODE BU Yellow on LGrey ; _*BoldUnderline*_ COLOR STYLECODE IU LCyan on LGrey ; /_ItalicUnderline_/ COLOR STYLECODE BIU Black on LGrey ; _/*BoldItalicUnderline*/_ These definitions must be placed after COLOR READER WINDOW, because it overrides the COLOR STYLECODE definitions. - QWK export set the line length to the DISPMARGIN instead of the maximum allowed 80 chars. + AREAFILE PCBoard now reads the PCBFIDO.CFG file to get FidoNet addresses/akas and the true echoids for conferences. GoldED finds the location and name of the file at line 246 in PCBOARD.DAT. The docs for v15.21 lists line 246 as "reserved", but I assume that this is an oversight. - Fixed two bugs in the PCBoard support: The lastreads in boards above #39 were not read from and written to the correct file offsets. Messages deleted with GoldED incorrectly showed up again with the DEL attribute. + New keywords: AREAISEMAIL <echoid> and AREAISNEWS <echoid>. One or more of each can be used, but only one echoid per line. Wildcards * and ? are allowed. These keywords are designed to mark areas which are read from an AREAFILE as Internet e-mail or newsgroups. This may be necessary in some cases to enable the Internet specific features without having to manually define all Internet areas. Examples: AREAISNEWS alt.* AREAISNEWS rec.* AREAISNEWS sci.* - If INTERNETADDRESS was defined globally, GoldED would insert a ^aFrom: kludge (RFC headerline) in all messages, including FidoNet messages. GoldED will now only use the Internet address in areas that are marked as e-mail or newsgroups, either with AREAISEMAIL/AREAISNEWS, manually with AREADEF, with SOUPEMAIL or in the SOUPNEWSRCFILE. - The QWK export function did not uppercase the to/from names. - The uudecoder would hang if a uuencoded msg was not terminated correctly. - It was not possible to change the destination Internet address on e-mails. - The destination Internet address could not be set using addressmacros for e-mails. - AREAFILE FMail did not get the recovery board. - The CC: function did not work with Internet addresses. - The new keywords CTRLINFOEMAIL and CTRLINFONEWS were not recognized by the config reader. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes for A0517: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + Added QWK packet support! New keywords: QWKIMPORTPATH Path where unpacked QWK packets can be found. QWKEXPORTPATH Path where QWK packet files can be placed. QWKBADMSGS Area where bad QWK msgs can be placed. QWKCONFMAP Conference<->echoid mapping setup. QWKTOSSLOG Name of a logfile for areas with imported msgs. QWKREPLYLINKER Commandline for an external replylinker. For more details about the QWK support, please read the Alpha edition of the "Using the QWK features" chapter in the file GOLDQWK.DOC. The QWK import/export feature is accessed via a submenu in the arealist Alt-S menu. + New and changed Internet SOUP features: SOUP packet export has now been implemented! The export is started from the Alt-S menu in the arealist. The SOUP import menu entry has been changed to a "SOUP Packet" entry which leads to a submenu where import or export is selected. To support the SOUP packet export and to improve SOUP packet import and Internet compatibility in general, a number of new keywords were added. Below is a brief list. For more detail, please read the Alpha edition of the "Using the SOUP features" chapter in the file GOLDSOUP.DOC. SOUPEXPORTPATH Path for exported SOUP packet files. SOUPNEWSRCFILE Name of the .newsrc file. SOUPTOSSLOG Name of a logfile for areas with imported news. SOUPREPLYLINKER Commandline for an external replylinker. MAILINGLIST Mailing list participation setup. INTERNETRFCBODY Gets/puts RFC headerlines at the msg body top. + Support of character translations for MIME ISO-8859-1, 8bit and quoted-printable encoding, plus RFC1345 character mnemonics (X-Charset) have been added. The new or updated charset table files ISO_IBM.CHS, IQP_IBM.CHS, IBM_IQP.CHS, IBM_MNE.CHS and MNE_IBM.ESC are included with this release. For examples of usage and details of character translation on Internet, see GOLDSOUP.DOC. + Updated the charset file MAC_IBM.CHS, because the old edition didn't correctly translate some of the Danish characters from the MAC charset to the IBMPC (CP865) charset. + Added three new template tokens: @oto Original RFC "To" headerline. @ofrom Original RFC "From" headerline. @omessageid Original RFC "Message-ID" headerline. These only work for messages which contain the RFC headerlines, otherwise they are replaced with a zero-length string. They were added so that templates can be created with attribution lines that look like the main defacto standard types. For an example template for use in Internet newsgroups, see GOLDSOUP.DOC. - Fixed the bug that caused the log entry "Detected 1 unfree'd memory allocation [..] at [gemsgs.cpp,nnn]. This was just a harmless memory leak. It occurred when doing a carbon copy which was aborted because there were nobody else to carbon copy to. + Added new keycommand: READchangexlatimport. Default key assignment is Ctrl-J. This command is used to manually select the import charset. The import charset is the one that messages are assumed to be written with, if there is no control information in the message that specifically sets the charset. When the command is given, GoldED will display a menu of all the XLATCHARSET lines that convert to the IBMPC charset. It is recommended to sort the XLATCHARSET lines so that the most commonly used charsets are listed first. See the chapter about Internet and SOUP in the manual for examples of suggested sorting. + Added two keywords: "CTRLINFOEMAIL <tearline,origin,yes,no>". Defaults to "no". And "CTRLINFONEWS <tearline,origin,yes,no>". Defaults to "no". These specify what, if any, FTN control lines that will be added at the bottom of the Internet e-mails and news articles that you write. Typically you should not have to use these keywords. They were only added for completeness. + The AREADEF keyword now accepts "EMail" and "News" as area types along with "Net", "Echo" and "Local". Areas defined as EMail or News will be scanned when starting a SOUP export. - Fixed two different causes of the dreaded internal editor "Range Check (_length > (maxcol+1))" problem. - The message lister could cause NULL pointers to be found or failure to find msgnos in internal indexes. - There was a long-standing problem with very long kludge lines being wrapped wrongly so that parts of them showed even when kludges are hidden. This was mostly a problem when using GoldED in Internet areas. - The new Squish PRN attribute bit (introduced in Beta5) was not properly implemented. - Fixed the problem that caused MBUTIL Index to report "Invalid JAM signature in xxxx.JHR after Msg# yyy". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes for A0307: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * If the Alpha archive contains a .BDF file, use the BUPDATE utility to update your copy of the original Beta5 .EXE. - The new HUDSONSYSPATH keyword was supposed to default to the HUDSONPATH, but instead it defaulted to the GOLDPATH. Check if you have some NETMAIL.BBS and/or ECHOMAIL.BBS files in the GOLDPATH. If you have, delete them. PLEASE NOTE! You may have some mail which is not scanned out because of this bug. You should make your mail processor scan the entire Hudson msgbase for unsent mail. ! When the FRQWAZOO feature was enabled, the request netmail was not saved. The request netmail is now by default saved. If this is not desired, add the new NOWAZOOMSG parameter to the FRQOPTIONS keyword. - The FRQWAZOO feature had a few problems: It did not make a .HLO file, and it did not handle requests with passwords correctly. The fixes have not been tested. One remaining problem have not yet been dealt with: Different outbounds for different domains is not supported. + New keyword: "MENUMARKED <marked/current/previous/default>". Defaults to DEFAULT. Specifies the position of the selection bar in the Marked/Current menu. Marked Set selector to Marked. Current Set selector to Current. Previous Set selector to previously selection. Default Set selector to Marked if there are marked msgs. Note that older versions (before 2.50) used the equivalent of the "previous" setting. + New keyword: "INTERNETADDRESS <address>". Can be used globally or in Random System groups. Specifies your Internet address. Currently only used by the INTERNETMSGID feature, but later it will be used with other Internet features. + New keyword: "INTERNETMSGID <yes/no>". Defaults to NO. Can be used globally or in Random System groups. If enabled, GoldED will use a different format in the MSGID kludge, compatible with the Internet Message-ID header line. Well-written replylinkers and dupe detectors should still be able to handle the MSGID in the new format. This feature is only meant to be used together with the Internet SOUP packet feature. Note that the new format in principle violates the FTS-0009.001 specification, so please don't use it in FidoNet net- or echomail. This keyword requires that an Internet address is specified with the new INTERNETADDRESS keyword. + New keyword: "AREACOPYADDID <yes/no>". Defaults to NO. If enabled, GoldED will insert the control line "AREA:<originalechoid>" at the top of each message that is copied or moved. This can be a help when regularly copying messages to a "THE_SAFE" type area. + The EDITMIXCASE keyword can now also be specified in Random System groups. This is useful if you prefer mixcase enabled in FidoNet areas, but don't want it in Internet areas. + The TAGLINESUPPORT keyword can now also be specified in Random System groups. This will be most useful to when you specify taglines globally, but need to disable them for areas where they are not allowed or desired. - AREAFILE FMail did not get the netmail board descriptions. It also did not get the group id letter. - The subject was character translated on file request or attach messages. This could produce undesirable results. - The "^aENC: PGP" kludge was added even on clearsigned messages. - The Forward feature asked about marked/current message, but it is only designed to work on the current message. - Squish personal mail scan: GoldED did not check the received bit in the hash value. - If "PERSONALMAIL Startup" was specified and no AREAPMSCAN keywords were found, GoldED would not scan any areas on startup. Now GoldED will use the AREASCAN keywords if no AREAPMSCAN keywords are found. + AREAFILE FrontDoor now recognizes JAM folders. Untested. + The AREA:<echoid> line in messages is now also recognized when it is a kludge (^aAREA:). + For SOUP packet import, the binary formats 'b' and 'B' are now supported. Private mail in the 'u' format ('unm') is now treated as e-mail. Still not supported yet is the 'M' format. Can anyone give me some packets in that format? + Added new search string options to the Alt-F/Alt-Z find functions and the Alt-S Header/Text marking functions. The new search string options are: '<', '>', '=', '*' and '!'. Here is the complete list of all search string options: - Search backward. + Search forward. < Search the From: field. > Search the To: field. : Search the Subj: field. = Case-sensitive search. ! Reverse - Stop/mark when the search string(s) are NOT found. By default, '<', '>' and ':' are enabled, so that GoldEd searches all header fields. When one of the from/to/subj options are used, the search is limited to those only. Examples: "<Odinn Sorensen" Searches for "Odinn Sorensen" in the From: field only. "<>Odinn" Searches for "Odinn" in both From: and To: fields. ":tagline" Search for "tagline" in the Subj: field only. ! Changed a default option in FRQOPTIONS. The "FromTop" option is now default. A new "NotFromTop" option has been added if you want the previous behavior, where GoldED started the filename search from the top of the screen instead of the top of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous notes were for GoldED 2.50.Beta5 and older. ----------------------------------------------------------------------